The Great Gatsby Dialectical Journal
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1. What, according to Hurston, is the difference between women and men? * Men are farmers and women are mules. * Women don't wait for their dreams to come true. The possession of the dream is enough. * Women seek the horizon; men do not. * Men use their voices and women do not.
2. When Janie returns to Eatonville, she is wearing * The headrags that Joe made her wear * Her blue satin wedding dress * Overalls * The same shoes that she left in
3. Who is Janie's life …show more content…
long best friend? * Pheoby * Nunkie * Tea Cake * Nanny
4. Janie wants Pheoby to relate her story to the townspeople on her behalf. We know this because she says * "An envious heart makes a treacherous ear." * "The oldest of human longings is self revelation." * "Two things everybody got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves." * "Mah tongue is in mah friend's mouf."
5. When Janie is a girl, she loves ... * reading books; her friends call her "Alphabet." * spending long hours talking to Nanny * to spend the afternoons laying under a pear tree, staring into the branches * All of the above
6. According to Nanny, when does Janie become a woman? * After she kisses Johnny Taylor * After she is raped by her school teacher * After her first period * After she is mesmerized by the golden beauty of bees pollinating the pear blossoms
7. Why was Janie's mother named Leafy? * Nanny hid her in the leafy moss when she ran away from the plantation * Janie's mother had green leafy eyes * Nanny had sex with the plantation master when she was a slave in the leafy forests * All of the above
8. Why does Janie marry Logan? * Janie wants to marry someone who has land and a stable livelihood.
* Janie falls in love with him after a session under the pear tree. * Nanny forces her to. * Logan is unbearably handsome.
9. What is a symbol of new opportunities in the novel? * The gate * The horizon * The porch * The pear tree
10. What is a symbol of Janie's freedom in the novel? * The pulpit * Her hair * The Oak tree * The horizon
11. Which of the following sentences is an example of Hurston's usage of opposition and serves as commentary on the vicissitudes of life? * "There are years that ask questions and years that answer." * "Ah want things sweet with my marriage like when you sit under a pear tree and think." * "You don't take nothing to count but sow-belly and cornbread." * His house was a "stump in the middle of the woods that no one had ever seen."
12. When Janie leaves Logan, ________ is like a new dress. * her long free hair * her freedom * her white apron * the fresh air
13. Where do Joe and Janie get married? * The Everglads * Green Cove Springs * Eatonville * West Florida
14. Who is the first mayor of Eatonville? * Captain
Eaton * Joe Starks * Tea Cake * Coker
15. Which of these does Joe provide for Eatonville? * A store * A post office * A street lamp * All of the above
16. Who steals a wagon of sugar cane from Joe? * Sam Watson * Matt Bonner * Oscar Scott * Henry Pitts
17. Which of these is ironic? * Mrs. Robbins cries out that no one feeds her * Joe forces Janie to sell something to Mrs. Bogle * Joe Starks stands on top of the mule to proclaim how great it was * None of the above
18. Matt Bonner's yellow mule is most closely a symbol of which character? * Joe Starks * Pheoby Watson * Zora Neale Hurston * Janie Starks
19. Janie's speaking out against Joe is like "the thing that Saul's daughter had done to David." This is an example of ... * a metaphor * a symbol * an allegory * an allusion
20. What does Joe die of? * heart disease * stomach cancer * kidney failure * brain aneurism
21. Which of these is a symbol of Janie's regained freedom? * Janie burns her headrags * Joe's impressive funeral * The death of Matt Bonner's yellow mule * All of the above
22. Before the funeral, Janie starches and irons her * her black gown * her face * chiffon veil * all of the above
23. Who says, "You just can't beat a woman! They just won't stand for it." * Joe Starks * Tea Cake * Janie * Hezekiah
24. At their second meeting, Tea Cake arrives * in a borrowed car * playing a harmonica * with trout for Janie * playing an invisible guitar
25. After which event is Janie convinced that Tea Cake is just a cold-heart womanizer? * When he asks her if she wants to go fishing by moonlight * When he wins at chess and says, "You just can't beat a woman! They just won't stand for it." * After he says "I'm the apostle to the Gentiles; I tell them and then I show them." * When he "taught [her the] maiden language all over."
The average score for this quiz is 55.0% and 40757 people have taken this quiz.
You can review your answers below; all the correct answers and your incorrect answers have been highlighted.
1. What, according to Hurston, is the difference between women and men? * Men are farmers and women are mules. * Women don't wait for their dreams to come true. The possession of the dream is enough. * Women seek the horizon; men do not. * Men use their voices and women do not.
2. When Janie returns to Eatonville, she is wearing * The headrags that Joe made her wear * Her blue satin wedding dress * Overalls * The same shoes that she left in
3. Who is Janie's life …show more content…
long best friend? * Pheoby * Nunkie * Tea Cake * Nanny
4. Janie wants Pheoby to relate her story to the townspeople on her behalf. We know this because she says * "An envious heart makes a treacherous ear." * "The oldest of human longings is self revelation." * "Two things everybody got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves." * "Mah tongue is in mah friend's mouf."
5. When Janie is a girl, she loves ... * reading books; her friends call her "Alphabet." * spending long hours talking to Nanny * to spend the afternoons laying under a pear tree, staring into the branches * All of the above
6. According to Nanny, when does Janie become a woman? * After she kisses Johnny Taylor * After she is raped by her school teacher * After her first period * After she is mesmerized by the golden beauty of bees pollinating the pear blossoms
7. Why was Janie's mother named Leafy? * Nanny hid her in the leafy moss when she ran away from the plantation * Janie's mother had green leafy eyes * Nanny had sex with the plantation master when she was a slave in the leafy forests * All of the above
8. Why does Janie marry Logan? * Janie wants to marry someone who has land and a stable livelihood.
* Janie falls in love with him after a session under the pear tree. * Nanny forces her to. * Logan is unbearably handsome.
9. What is a symbol of new opportunities in the novel? * The gate * The horizon * The porch * The pear tree
10. What is a symbol of Janie's freedom in the novel? * The pulpit * Her hair * The Oak tree * The horizon
11. Which of the following sentences is an example of Hurston's usage of opposition and serves as commentary on the vicissitudes of life? * "There are years that ask questions and years that answer." * "Ah want things sweet with my marriage like when you sit under a pear tree and think." * "You don't take nothing to count but sow-belly and cornbread." * His house was a "stump in the middle of the woods that no one had ever seen."
12. When Janie leaves Logan, ________ is like a new dress. * her long free hair * her freedom * her white apron * the fresh air
13. Where do Joe and Janie get married? * The Everglads * Green Cove Springs * Eatonville * West Florida
14. Who is the first mayor of Eatonville? * Captain
Eaton * Joe Starks * Tea Cake * Coker
15. Which of these does Joe provide for Eatonville? * A store * A post office * A street lamp * All of the above
16. Who steals a wagon of sugar cane from Joe? * Sam Watson * Matt Bonner * Oscar Scott * Henry Pitts
17. Which of these is ironic? * Mrs. Robbins cries out that no one feeds her * Joe forces Janie to sell something to Mrs. Bogle * Joe Starks stands on top of the mule to proclaim how great it was * None of the above
18. Matt Bonner's yellow mule is most closely a symbol of which character? * Joe Starks * Pheoby Watson * Zora Neale Hurston * Janie Starks
19. Janie's speaking out against Joe is like "the thing that Saul's daughter had done to David." This is an example of ... * a metaphor * a symbol * an allegory * an allusion
20. What does Joe die of? * heart disease * stomach cancer * kidney failure * brain aneurism
21. Which of these is a symbol of Janie's regained freedom? * Janie burns her headrags * Joe's impressive funeral * The death of Matt Bonner's yellow mule * All of the above
22. Before the funeral, Janie starches and irons her * her black gown * her face * chiffon veil * all of the above
23. Who says, "You just can't beat a woman! They just won't stand for it." * Joe Starks * Tea Cake * Janie * Hezekiah
24. At their second meeting, Tea Cake arrives * in a borrowed car * playing a harmonica * with trout for Janie * playing an invisible guitar
25. After which event is Janie convinced that Tea Cake is just a cold-heart womanizer? * When he asks her if she wants to go fishing by moonlight * When he wins at chess and says, "You just can't beat a woman! They just won't stand for it." * After he says "I'm the apostle to the Gentiles; I tell them and then I show them." * When he "taught [her the] maiden language all over."